Sentences with phrase «given by the inhabitants»

A barbecue is usually given by the inhabitants of some rural district desirous of giving candidates an opportunity to state, that, if elected, all their energies will be devoted to the interests of their constituents and the public weal, and that they pledge themselves, that, when their tenure of office shall expire, they will restore the high trust committed to their hands unsullied, etc..

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Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

As inhabitants of the modern world, we are religious now perhaps to the extent of our desire to crack open the coffin of materialism, and to give to reality a larger, freer definition than is allowed by the militant materialists of the corporate economy and their political servants, or by the mechanical paradigm of reductive science.

When he is given a picture of our redeemed state during his exile on Patmos, he does not see Eden restored in some kind of an agrarian utopia, nor does he see the American ideal of a single - family detached house surrounded by a huge yard for every inhabitant of the Kingdom.

The prophet gave them God's answer, 2 Chronicles 20: 15, «And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great mult.itude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.»

Brueggemann is one who has given extended attention to Israel's «unsolicited» testimony that the God who creates is also a God who can and does wreak destruction.35 Beyond the wholesale destruction brought on by the Great Flood comes the devastating of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their inhabitants (Gen. 19:24 — 25) and the unleashing of a host of plagues against all of Egypt, guilty and [14] innocent alike (Ex.

To some degree it must do, since it is improbable that any writer would make God give even a shadow of his own unique likeness to a Creature that had nothing in common with him; and this common - sense conclusion is confirmed by the fact that God entrusts to man dominion over his new and wonderful earth and its other inhabitants.

THE ELIZABETHTOWN - LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE & BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONNotice is hereby given that a Budget Hearing of the inhabitants of the Elizabethtown - Lewis Central School District, Essex County, New York, qualified to vote at school meetings in the District will be held at the school on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of hearing the report of the meeting.Notice is also hereby given that the vote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (DST).

Give West the raw census data from your city — regardless of its history or geography — and he can tell you everything from the number of gas stations in it to the number of patents produced by its inhabitants.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

ALMA gave talks as far south as Tierra del Fuego, with another 12 in the Metropolitan Region, while ExpoALMA was well received in Osorno, and the inhabitants of San Pedro de Atacama hung their wishes on trees, as part of the Japanese tradition of Tanabata, celebrated by ALMA and its Asian partner.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

At present, it is staged in several sacred places of the city of Cusco, the main one being the Esplanade of Saqsaywaman, in an impressive artistic display, with beautiful choreographies and costumes which give a special touch to the Sanctuary of Saqsaywaman which is visited every 24th of June, by a multitude of Cusco's inhabitants, as well as by a great number of foreign and national visitors who give a higher level to the Íncas» most important festivity.

The original name of the island was «Yuma», which was given to it by very early Arawak inhabitants.

Early on you'll be using the function to solve quests given to you by the world's inhabitants.

This is true for the Power Moons as well, some are given by doing quests from the inhabitants of that world, others must be found by exploring.

There are quests in nearly every town given to you by its inhabitants.

They left Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Jackie Winsor's Burned Piece and Exploded Piece, Lynda Benglis with her Night Sherbet of poured polyurethane foam, Michelle Stuart with canvases of graphite and earth, Suzanne Harris's Inhabitant, and Wheatfield by Agnes Denes — long since harvested of its thousand pounds to give way to the luxury rentals of Battery Park City.

And a clear operational definition of your «CAGW» might have been helpful, even for the «Consensus CAGW», given how its use is largely restricted to use by inhabitants of blog commentaries which suggests it's a sign of a very distinct «worldview», likely with it's very own set of biases.

Yet these things surely are nothing but «the extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem (s) of a given territory» which «severely diminishes» the «peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory».

Higgins suggests the following definition for ecocide: The extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem (s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of the that territory has been severely diminished.

My dream is to break to economic necessity of such destruction by economically empowering the forest's inhabitants while building a culture of giving back what is taken or used from the forest and the landscape.

A look at what's there in English brought up first of all, appropriately enough, given the recent 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, a 1772 monograph by Anthony Benezet, «Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants: with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects.»

The Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) was the government's legislative response to the High Court's decision in Mabo (No. 2) that held Australian law recognises a form of Indigenous title to the land given by the traditional laws and customs of the original inhabitants, Australia's Indigenous peoples.

[the Yorta Yorta] approach to the recognition of native title was dependent upon the existence of an authentic form of aboriginal culture — an argument which can be seen to flow from the original Mabo ruling which argued that «native title has its origins in and is given its content by the traditional laws acknowledged by and the traditional customs observed by the indigenous inhabitants of a territory».

Native title has its origin in and is given its content by the traditional laws acknowledged by and the traditional customs observed by the indigenous inhabitants of a territory.